Willis Presbyterian Church and Cemetery
{{Short description|Historic site in Floyd County, Virginia, US}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}}
{{Infobox NRHP
| name = Willis Presbyterian Church and Cemetery
| nrhp_type =
| designated_other1 = Virginia Landmarks Register
| designated_other1_date = March 30, 2007{{cite web|title=Virginia Landmarks Register|url=http://www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/register_counties_cities.htm|publisher=Virginia Department of Historic Resources|accessdate=5 June 2013}}
| designated_other1_number = 031-0045
| designated_other1_num_position = bottom
| image = Willis Presbyterian Church.jpg
| caption = Willis Presbyterian Church in 2016
| location = 5733 Floyd Highway, S., Willis, Virginia
| coordinates = {{coord|36|51|26|N|80|29|00|W|display=inline,title}}
| locmapin = Virginia#USA
| built = 1954
| architect = Lyle, Stanley
| architecture = Gothic Revival
| added = March 30, 2007
| area = {{convert|1.7|acre}}
| mpsub = [http://www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/Counties/MultipleCounty/017-5032_MPD_Childress_Rock_Churches_2006_NRdraft.pdf Reverend Robert Childress Presbyterian Churches MPS]
| refnum = 07000226{{NRISref|2009a}}
}}
Willis Presbyterian Church and Cemetery, also known as Grace Baptist Church, is a historic Presbyterian church and cemetery in Willis, Floyd County, Virginia. It was built in 1954, and is one of six "rock churches" founded by Bob Childress and built between 1919 and the early 1950s. The building consists of a one-story, gable-fronted rectangular form with a roughly square, Gothic Revival bell tower on the building's northeast corner. The building was erected on a poured concrete foundation, and has walls of light framing covered with a thick quartz and quartzite fieldstone exterior veneer.{{cite web |url=http://www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/Counties/Floyd/031-0045_Willis_Church_2007_NRfinal.pdf|title=National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Slate Mountain Presbyterian Church and Cemetery |author1=Randle Brim |author2=John Kern |author3=Michael Pulice |name-list-style=amp | date=December 2005|publisher=Virginia Department of Historic Resources}} and [http://www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/Counties/Floyd/WillisPres_photos.htm Accompanying two photos]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.
See also
References
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External links
- [http://www.stone-churches.com/Home.htm Stone Churches of Reverend Bob Childress]
{{National Register of Historic Places in Virginia}}
Category:Gothic Revival church buildings in Virginia
Category:Churches completed in 1954
Category:Churches in Floyd County, Virginia
Category:Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia
Category:Presbyterian churches in Virginia
Category:National Register of Historic Places in Floyd County, Virginia